Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

My staff were very happy and well looked after. Every one of them had a company car, private medical, flexitime, high salaries, bonuses, expensive training and a say in how the company was run.

gf
More of an idiot than usual. How many people could have seen Miliband's speech this lunchtime and be available to be polled. Maybe they just asked all the obvious activists who attended the speech.

i suppose i am a tory if you really must attach a label to me, but at the end of the day, i'm just a bod who has done adequately well for himself and who sometimes thinks :-)

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however, that really is tosh about a personalised number plate
even one of my "friendly courier drivers" has a personalised plate, as is mine - purely a bit of nonsense vanity

similarly, i happen to drive a flash tart's car, but it certainly doesn't upset my staff, and if it makes one or two of my clients a bit cross (aka envious), well that is their loss - actually, most know me pretty well, so they just take me for what i am and as they find me

What car is it? My staff loved my car.

a car for tarts and wags i am told, but very comfortable, quick and surprisingly nimble for a big beastie .... wonderful when you drive up to hotels etc; you get a decent parking slot quite often :-)

I had a red Porsche 944 Turbo.

Like I said..........common as muck.

Someone lent me a lamborghini for a few days. I went to see a client in it to take him to lunch and I thought he was going to faint.

Material effects to 'show off' with pull no punches with me.

Its about brains and knowledge in my book.

Hays do you wear white trainers.

Well that's you fxxxxd on both counts then GF :O)

nah nah ne nah nah :-)
"i don't care if you've got a much nicer car/house/girlfriend than me, so there!"
sulk, sulk, sulk

i bought my car for ME just as i buy decent wine or go to good restaurants

A well known golf professional in Scotland used to leave his BMW in his garage at home and drive to his golf club in a beat-up Skoda. He said the club members wouldn't spend money paying him for lessons if they thought he was making too much money. He had a point!

What you on about Chris????

The 944 was the best handling road car I have ever driven by a long way. When it came out it was borderline supercar. They stopped making it as it was too good value for money and they made little profit on it despite being about £45k in 1989.

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My staff were very happy and well looked after. Every one of them had a company car, private medical, flexitime, high salaries, bonuses, expensive training and a say in how the company was run."


Who were you screwing to be able to do that?

Sounds like the Mafioso to me,
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Haze.

I seems you like to be measured and advertise yourself by your accumulated possessions rather than personal wealth.

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Manuel,

Were your worried they wouldn't recognise you without your number plate. sort of car old tarts drive.

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Minimal wage.

It is circular, the state subsidises the "low paid earner" or the uneconomic "company".

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Breaking up of Banks.

Not necessary, increase the regulations and have board meetings, policy making meetings, etc. videoed recorded for further reference and examination by independent overseers.


HSBC are in the UK for its own benefit. The UK is secondary, but does benefit from from having it here.

If they are not happy HSBC then they can "bugger off", but if necessary they can have their assets "restrained".

But, the UK is not the only country "fed" up with the banks and similar organisations.

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And before Manuel starts bleating again suggest he does his own homework.

fossy - you are in the UK for your own benefit. The UK barely benefits if at all from having you here.
if you are not happy, then you can "bugger off", as has been suggested previously


But, the UK is not the only country "fed" up with the banks and similar organisations.
specifics please


PS - my car's plates are actually company related, not that it matters much and certainly not that i care one single iota about your opinion or jibes

We had high profile and generous clients such as banks, finance companies in the UK, Holland and Germany. We did some work for one client and he said that we were too cheap at the end of the project and paid us 50% more. It was the 80s and money flowed like the champagne. I used to take the whole company to a wine bar in the City on Friday nights and pay for them to drink champagne all evening.

On an expense account?

I took all the company plus several people from each client out to a Xmas dinner each year. The best one was the Savoy. We ended up so drunk that we were throwing paper planes across the dance floor.